Comments on: Bollywood Easter: Images of Christ in '70s poster art from Indiahttp://boingboing.net/2013/03/29/bollywood-easter-images-of-ch.html
Brain candy for Happy MutantsMon, 15 Sep 2014 23:11:17 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1By: Kaleberghttp://boingboing.net/2013/03/29/bollywood-easter-images-of-ch.html#comment-1692151
Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:00:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=222223#comment-1692151 I’m sure these were produced in India and subject to a different artistic tradition. I’ve always loved those Manoj Pocket Book children’s posters which are in yet another tradition. On the other hand, the pastel colors, floral imagery and general line of these do bring back memories of my Irish day care provider and her preferred iconography.
]]>By: Jenn Chlebushttp://boingboing.net/2013/03/29/bollywood-easter-images-of-ch.html#comment-1692064
Sun, 31 Mar 2013 06:21:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=222223#comment-1692064What I have wanted to see, for a very long time, is trading cards or posters or the like with “Saints to Science!!!” on them. (Like the saint cards my grandmother (god rest her soul) used to give me at Mass to shut me up.) Tesla, wreathed in lightning-like glow, surrounded by sparking coils and wireless lamps, hovering unnaturally above Niagara Falls… Alexander Graham Bell with his first phone, gesturing beatifically at his alphabet…. Newton, Einstein, Franklin, Curie, even distant Hypatia, all rendered in glowing iconographic style.

I wish I could art so bad.

]]>By: djcarlitohttp://boingboing.net/2013/03/29/bollywood-easter-images-of-ch.html#comment-1691828
Sat, 30 Mar 2013 18:17:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=222223#comment-1691828I’m pretty sure these were produced in India (though some of them may have borrowed heavily from prints coming from Germany, Italy, and England at that time) – It makes sense that they would keep the imagery relatively close to how Jesus and his life story are usually portrayed around the world .. including Mrs Olson’s home decorations

But once you’ve looked at a lot of the indian ‘pop art’ from this era, some elements start jumping out at you as being characteristic of the style of these Indian commercial art studios… for example the coloring, backgrounds, lighting, abundance of flowers, birds, stars and other embellishments, facial expressions etc..

here’s a page i found with some other work from the SJ Brijbasi studios for example:

http://www.touchofclass.co.in/Vintage/Brijbasi.html

]]>By: Kaleberghttp://boingboing.net/2013/03/29/bollywood-easter-images-of-ch.html#comment-1691770
Sat, 30 Mar 2013 15:57:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=222223#comment-1691770These don’t look all that different from Roman Catholic artwork I saw in shop windows and people’s homes in the early 1960s. I don’t know who did the art for those posters, calendars and the like, but I doubt they were imported from India. They had the same lurid style with fully saturated colors, the “glow” around the sacred heart, and almost identical themes and poses. They were very exotic to me. I was Jewish and familiar with a rather different iconography. (I half expected to see some of that old artwork in Peggy’s mom’s home on Mad Men.)
]]>By: Boundegarhttp://boingboing.net/2013/03/29/bollywood-easter-images-of-ch.html#comment-1691689
Sat, 30 Mar 2013 11:07:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=222223#comment-1691689Ah, but your wife can’t possibly monitor your Ebay activity 24 hours a day, unless you married the NSA.
]]>By: ashypetehttp://boingboing.net/2013/03/29/bollywood-easter-images-of-ch.html#comment-1691617
Sat, 30 Mar 2013 05:44:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=222223#comment-1691617There used to be a clock shop in a dying mall where I’d pick up mail which sold clocks which used as their faces an image similar to the first and the one with the crucifix, candles and Mary. However, my favorite of all of them (there was a lot of them) was one of Jesus et al. in front of an undulating waterfall which might of been Niagara Falls (likely cribbed from the Bollywood classic A Evening in Paris – which has a climax which takes place at the Falls). My wife physically restrained me from buying it. Sadly, that store is long gone…
]]>By: Jenhttp://boingboing.net/2013/03/29/bollywood-easter-images-of-ch.html#comment-1691544
Sat, 30 Mar 2013 02:50:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=222223#comment-1691544just wondered if you had heard of Indian Hippy… its a not-for-profit business based in Mumbai that exists to preserve the art of Bollywood poster painting..when I first saw this post I thought it was from Hinesh at IH :)
]]>By: awjthttp://boingboing.net/2013/03/29/bollywood-easter-images-of-ch.html#comment-1691299
Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:15:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=222223#comment-1691299Jesus life: cross finger, hope heart not fall out.
]]>By: ocschwarhttp://boingboing.net/2013/03/29/bollywood-easter-images-of-ch.html#comment-1691259
Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:34:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=222223#comment-1691259And they continue to be available in India. I saw lots of these at the Basilica of St. Thomas in Chennai
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Fri, 29 Mar 2013 20:36:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=222223#comment-1691174Good point, technically they’re not.. they were just produced by art studios in India that also mass-produced posters and calendars of Indian deities – and, also posters of Bollywood film stars.